Sharon Hodgson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sharon Hodgson on 2014-06-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what targets his Department has for increasing diversity; and what progress has been made on meeting those targets in the last year.
Elizabeth Truss
Whilst the Department for Education does not set explicit targets for increasing diversity, Management Committee monitors representation rates on a monthly basis.
The table below shows the change to the workforce over the past year:
|
May-13 |
May-14 |
Annual change (percentage points) |
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|
Workforce |
Black and minority ethnic |
16.6% |
16.6% |
0.0 |
|
Women |
59.0% |
57.8% |
-1.2 |
|
|
Disabled |
11.7% |
12.1% |
+0.4 |
|
|
LGBT |
4.0% |
4.1% |
+0.1 |
We also monitor the Department’s representation rates at SCS against Civil Service 2013 targets:
|
Female |
BME |
Disabled |
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|
DfE |
CS target |
DfE |
CS target |
DfE |
CS target |
|
|
SCS |
44.1% |
39% |
5.4% |
5% |
5.7% |
5% |
|
Women (Director and above) |
42.9% |
34% |
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